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Olive Boulevard Design Guidelines University City, MO LANDSCAPING SECTIONS APPENDIX-A January 2009 Appendix-A: Olive Boulevard Plant List By Landscaping Sections Street Tree/ Ornamental Common Tree Type Botanical Name Name Maintainence Factor Growth rate Height Width Picture Hedging/ Planters/ Shrubs/ Common Botanical Common Medians Type Botanical Name Name Picture Type Name Name Picture Acer x freemanii Armstron/ Low Fast 50'- 60' 15'- 20' 'Armstrong Bowhall Street Tree Columnar with fastigiate branching, widening to narrow oval with maturity. Very heat tolerant, Hybrid between Red and Silver maples. Adaptable over a wide range of climate and soil conditions. Will tolerate partial shade. Winter King Crataegus viridis Low Moderate 25'- 35' 25'- 35' Hawthorn Easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soil in full sun. Drought tolerant. Moist, rich fertile soils Ornamental may encourage unwanted succulent growth.Excellent spring flowering tree for lawns and streets. Good fall Trees color and persistent fruit help provide year round interest. Pollution tolerance makes it a good candidate for urban plantings. One of the most disease-free hawthorns. As with most hawthorns, there is some susceptibility to rust (rust stage of cedar hawthorn rust where eastern red cedars are present in the area) and fireblight, but this cultivar is noted for its good resistance to both diseases. Hedging/ Juniperus x Spartan Screening (6 Euonymus alata Burning Bush Spartan Juniper feet) Landscaping Section-1 Shrubs Interchange Commercial Hedging/ Juniperus chin. Compact Screening (3 Berberis thun. Barberry Pfitzer Juniper feet) Gaillardia "Goblin" Planters Hemerocallis x Daylillies Medians Kobold Blanket Flower Ginko Ginkgo biloba "Princeton Low Fast 50'- 60' 20'- 30' Sentry" Street Tree This male cultivar of Ginkgo is practically pestfree, resistant to storm damage, and casts light shade due to the narrow crown . It has a dense, fat columnar form. It makes a durable street tree where there is limited vertical Section-2 overhead space. The tree is easily transplanted and has a vivid yellow fall color which is second to none in Landscaping brilliance - Yoshino Prunus yedoensis Medium Fast 30'- 40' 30'- 40' Cherry 3 Street Tree The Yoshino cherry is more subtle than most, in early April its branches are clothed with single pale-pink blooms that have a delicate fragrance. These are followed later in the year by small, red fruits. The handsome oval leaves have hairy undersides and colour well in the autumn. They make ideal trees for small gardens, providing interest throughout the year and casting a light shade. Landscaping Section Ginko Ginkgo biloba "Princeton Low Fast 50'- 60' 20'- 30' Sentry" Street Tree This male cultivar of Ginkgo is practically pestfree, resistant to storm damage, and casts light shade due to the narrow crown . It has a dense, fat columnar form. It makes a durable street tree where there is limited vertical Section-4 Landscaping overhead space. The tree is easily transplanted and has a vivid yellow fall color which is second to none in brilliance Flowering Prunus 'Kanzan' Medium Moderate 25'- 30' 25'- 30' Cherry Ornamental Trees These are considered by many the most showy and one of the more popular cherries. Flowering is extravagant with double pink, almost magenta-colored, blossoms borne in hanging clusters of two to five flowers each. Hedging/ Juniperus chin. Hollywood Screening 6 Syringa meyeri Korean Lilac torrulosa Juniper feet International District Hedging/ Ilex glabra Compact Rubidor Screening 3 Shrubs Wegiela compacta Inkberry Weigela feet Pink Parasols Viola spp Red Pansy Spiraea x Spiraea Garnet Rosa x Magic Carpet Rose Sedum x Planters Brocade Medians Purple Chrysanthemum Dark Triumph Sedum x Emperor Silver Linden Tilia tomentosa Low Medium 50' - 60' 30- 40' "Sterling" Street Tree The Silver Linden is a wonderful shade tree with a pleasing form and lustrous dark-green leaves. This tree produces yellowish white flowers that are very fragrant and attractive against the dark green leaves. It is widely grown as an ornamental tree throughout its native range in Europe. Cercis canadensis Redbud Medium to Low Fast 15'-20' 15'-20' Ornamental Redbud is native to the southeastern and central United States, from New Jersey south. It has small, Landscaping Section-5Trees clustered, sessile dark brown floral Landscaping Sections- 2,3 & 4 buds swell to purple-lavender buds in early Spring, slowly opening to pink- lavender flowers, prominently displayed in April before the foliage emerges and persistent for two to three weeks Kentucky Gymnocladus Coffee Tree Medium to Low Fast 50'- 60' 40'- 50' dioicus "Espresso" Street Tree Kentucky Coffee Tree is a hardy native tree commonly found on moist bottom lands and moist slopes. The bark and winter habit are very attractive, however, only male (fruitless) named varieties should be used. E.g. "Espresso", "Stately Manor". Amelanchier spp. Serviceberry Medium Moderate 15'- 25' 10'- 20' Ornamental Trees Serviceberry (Amelanchier spp.) is a small deciduous tree or shrub with attractive white spring blossoms. Landscaping Section- 6 graceful, airy trees or shrubs provide year-round ornamental interest in the landscape, with nice fall color ranging from yellow to red. Hedging/ Myrica Aronia Parkway District Screening 6 Bayberry Chokecherry pensylvanica melanocarpa feet Shrubs Hedging/ Pinus mugho Dwarf Mugo Viburnum Alfredo Screening 3 mugo Pine trilobum Viburnum feet Black Eyed Muhlenbergia Pink Rudbeckia x Medians Susan capillaris Muhlygrass Landscaping Sections- 5 & 6 Planters Silvery Liriope muscari Sunproof Zelkova serrata Zelkova Low Fast 50'- 70' 40'- 50' Street Tree Zelkova is one of the two best large shade trees with a vase shape, with a rapid growth rate and stately appearance that, coupled with its other ornamental features of Summer/Autumn foliage, fine texture, and attractive bark, make it a truly underutilized tree in modern landscapes. Good shade tree; easy fall cleanup; tolerant of heat, drought, wind, and urban conditions. Maackia Moderate to Amur Maackia Low 25'- 30' 25'- 30' amurensis Fast Ornamental An attractive summer-flowering tree. Shows excellent adaptability to extremes of soil conditions. Tree is a slow- Trees growing tree that will give multi-season interest to broad streetscapes. Eventually, it will grow to 10m tall, with an irregular, intricately-branched canopy, elegant pinnately-compound foliage and upright racemes of white flowers in the summer. The bark exfoliates in multi-colored plates, and becomes very interesting on mature trees. Hedging/ Juniperus Rocky Industrial Screening 6 scopulorum "Gray Mountain Shrubs Rhus aromatica Gro-lo Sumac feet Gleam" Juniper Landscaping Section- 7 Hedging/ Ilex glabra Inkberry var. Coreopsis Moonbeam Screening 3 Medians compacta "Nordica" verticillata Coreopsis feet Dwarf Fntn Planters Pennisetum al. Grass.